Scan any Mushaf or Arabic text to find the verse.
Point your camera at a printed Mushaf, a phone screen, a book, a poster, a social-media screenshot, or handwritten Arabic. Smart Scanner reads the text with OCR, finds the matching ayah in seconds, and opens it with translation, AI tafsir, transliteration, and audio playback from 48+ reciters.
How it works
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Open the scanner
Tap Smart Scanner from the home screen. The camera view opens immediately.
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Point and hold
Hold the camera over the Arabic text. RecitID auto-detects the text region and sends it for OCR.
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Tap the match
Candidate verses are returned with confidence scores. Tap the correct one to open the full verse.
What Smart Scanner handles
- Printed Mushafs, including standard Madinah prints and Tajweed-coloured editions.
- Screens — phones, tablets, laptops — and photos saved to your device.
- Books, articles, posters, and most modern Arabic publishing fonts.
- Legible handwriting, useful for students working from notes.
- Confidence scores on every candidate match, so you can pick between look-alike passages.
- Matches open straight into the verse view: full Arabic, translation, tafsir, transliteration, and 48+ reciters for playback.
When to use Smart Scanner
Six everyday cases where scanning beats typing a search. If you’ve ever wanted a reverse image search for a Quran ayah, this is it.
You saw an ayah on social media with no reference
Screenshot the post, open Smart Scanner, pick the saved image. You get the surah, the verse number, and the translation — no more asking in group chats.
You're reading a printed Mushaf and want the translation
Point the camera at the Arabic, tap the match, and the ayah opens with your chosen translation. Useful if you're studying and your Mushaf has no translation alongside.
You saw a poster or flyer at the masjid
Ayah on a Ramadan poster, a bookmark, or a community announcement? Scan it to find the source and read the context around it.
You're a student revising from notes
Copy the ayah in your handwriting, then scan it to check you wrote it correctly against the Uthmani text — Smart Scanner returns the canonical verse.
You want to share an ayah you're looking at
Scan the printed ayah, open it in RecitID, and use the share poster feature to send a nicely formatted image to someone — with the reference intact.
You're learning Arabic and want to look up a word in context
Scan a line you're reading, open the verse, and tap any word for meaning and root — then hear the ayah recited by your preferred qari.
Daily limits
Resets at midnight UTC.
FAQ
How does the Quran OCR scanner work?
Smart Scanner uses optical character recognition tuned for Arabic script. Point your camera at Arabic text, the app reads the characters, matches them against the full Quran text, and returns candidate ayahs ranked by confidence. Tap the right one to open the full verse with translation, tafsir, and audio.
What can it scan?
Printed Mushafs, phone and tablet screens, laptop displays, books, articles, posters, social-media screenshots, and handwritten Arabic that's legible.
Can I scan handwritten Arabic?
Yes, as long as the handwriting is legible. Students working from their own notes or copied ayahs can scan them to find the source verse in the Quran.
Can I scan a screenshot from Instagram, TikTok, or WhatsApp?
Yes. Save the image to your camera roll and open Smart Scanner — it reads from saved photos as well as live camera input. Useful when an ayah is shared as a caption or graphic with no source reference.
Does it need internet?
Yes. Scanning uses cloud OCR for accuracy across different fonts, diacritics, and handwriting styles. A stable connection works best.
How many scans per day?
Free: 3/day. Monthly Pro: 10/day. Annual Pro+: 12/day. Limits reset at midnight UTC.
Does it work with Tajweed-coloured Mushafs?
Yes. Standard black-ink Mushafs, Tajweed-coloured editions (Madina, King Fahd Complex, and most published editions), and modern Arabic fonts used in Islamic publishing are all supported.
What happens after a match?
The ayah opens with the full Arabic text, translation in your preferred language (38 available), AI tafsir, transliteration, and audio playback from 48+ reciters.
Is the OCR accurate on small text or low light?
Accuracy is highest on clean, well-lit text at comfortable reading distance. Low light, glare, or fingers covering part of the ayah will reduce matches — we return top candidates with confidence scores so you can choose.
Try it
Download RecitID and scan any Mushaf you have with you.